White Collar/Awesome

In the second episode of season 2--Diana's blase acceptance of her boss's request to pose as a call girl, and the culmination of her conversation with the thug sent to hurt her.

Diana: Draw, and I'll put a bullet through your shoulder. (His hand creeps towards his gun. She's faster, and she does exactly what she said she was going to do.)
Diana: Told ya. (Her FBI buddies burst in to save her, and she gives them a big affectionate grin, her stiletto on the chest of the bad guy and her gun still trained on him.)
Diana: Awww... You were worried.

In the ending of 2x03, "Copycat Caffrey", Peter addresses a criminology class, some of whose members are being been arrested for following in Neal's footsteps even as he speaks, in the style of an FBI recruiter, and telling 'em crime doesn't pay. He uses Neal as an example.

"I wear a badge. He wears a tracking anklet. Applications are on the table. (walks off)"

In 2x04, "By the Book", Mozzie cooks up a plan to get his romantic rival out of the way and save the girl, all within minutes. Then he--yes, Mozzie--disarms a criminal. (If you look closely, his trigger discipline is just terrible) Then he asks if he's going to become a consultant like Neal, showing he's made some significant headway in his issues with authority.
- During this same scene, we can't forget Peter moving in alone and putting his gun on Navarro. To sum up, Navarro is not afraid to kill Peter, and he's being backed up by at least four men. Sure, Peter had FBI coming in moments after him, but going in alone and staring 5+ men down on your own is badass. Mozzie doesn't count as backup, since he was more or less keeping one unarmed thug out of the fight.
Peter chasing down and arresting Larson in the middle of Central Park on a freakin' HORSE! in "Burke's Seven".
- And considering the bystanders pointing their phone-cams at him, you just know the whole shebang would show up on YouTube a couple minutes later.
When Diana arrives to arrest a criminal in "Countermeasures", he laughs her off and keeps walking away because he doesn't take her seriously. One Gilligan Cut later, we see Diana slamming his face into a car hood and delivering a delicious Ironic Echo.
In "Payback" Peter gets kidnapped, complete with the bag over his head to keep him from knowing their destination. Then, upon being un-bagged in a makeshift cell, he tells the kidnapper almost exactly where they are (within about a block).
In the mid-season finale of season 2, Neal goes after Fowler, the man who he thinks killed Kate. They end up at a gallery showing artifacts which will soon be shipped to Russia. Peter has trapped Fowler inside a room, and while Fowler is trying to make a rope out of a sheet to escape, Neal sees him through a window. What does Neal do? He runs to a balcony on the second floor, grabs a cutlass, cuts the rope which has anchored a tapestry to the balcony, and jumps. We get an awesome slow-motion shot of Neal swinging on the tapestry and crashing through the window, then he takes the gun he stole from an antique shop and fires a shot that barely misses Fowler. All this while "How You Like Me Now" plays. Holy CRAP.
- This troper's only thought while watching that scene for the first time was, "That would be so cool, if he wasn't being so stupid!"
In "On Guard", though they may not have gotten away with it completely yet, Mozzie finally finishes his long con against Adler.
In 3x10, "Countdown," Neal in the sequence when he gets the Degas back from Richmond the arms dealer. After Briar Patching his way into a locked supply clsoet, Neal breaks into the penthouse, swaps the real Degas with the fake he made that Mozzie smuggled in via bazooka, replaces the fake in its hiding place. Then in the last moment before Richmond, Diana and Peter enter the scene, Neal exits the penthouse and jumps off the skyscraper with the Degas, using a parachute to stop himself from going splat. He then calmly walks away, detaching the parachute with ease, and gets back into the closet, where Peter finds him exactly where he left Neal; "What took you so long?"
- And to make matters even better, Neal's fake is almost good enough to fool Peter's mentor, and he comments that if the forger had been just a little better, he would have missed it as a fake. Then the Fridge Brilliance kicks in and you realize that Neal purposefully wanted it identified as a good forgery, but still fake. He probably could have made a near-flawless copy if he had wanted to, since the "mistake" seemed to have been not aging the paper long enough in an oven, something Neal is smart enough not to have missed.
In "Checkmate": Elizabeth Freakin' Burke. Sending coded messages in front of her captor (seconds after he specifically told her not to)? Check. Scaring the pants off her other captor with a few words and a thermostat? Check. Using her jewelry to escape? Check, check and check.

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